Advances in Information Systems Development (eBook)

Preface 5
International Science Committee 7
Contents 10
A Revised Perspective on Documentation Practices in the Modern Organisation 14
1 Introduction 14
2 The need for a revised perspective of IS documentation 15
3 The Research Study 16
4 Findings 17
5 Conclusion 19
References 20
Towards a Dialectic Understanding of Enterprise Systems – Vendor Challenges and Contradictory Rhetoric 23
1 Introduction 23
2 Method 27
4 Discussion 30
5. Conclusion 32
References 32
Understanding Strategic ISD Project in Practice – An ANT Account of Success and Failure 35
1 Introduction 35
2 Theoretical Background: Some Key Concepts of ANT 36
3 Research Method 38
4 The Case Company and its Industry Context 39
5 The Story of Olympia-Online Development 41
6 Discussion and Conclusion 44
References 46
How Can Organizations Achieve Competitive Advantages Using ERP Systems Through Managerial Processes? 48
1 Introduction 48
2 Prior research 49
3 Research approach 50
4 Results and analysis 51
5 Discussion 53
6 Summing up 54
References 56
Novel Approach to BCG Analysis in the Context of ERP System Implementation 58
1 Introduction 58
2 Standard ERP system implementation methods 61
3 BCG Matrix and Gap analysis 62
4 Materials and methods 63
5 Results and discussion 65
6 Conclusion 67
References 68
Approach to Enterprise Knowledge Base Development 72
1 Introduction 72
2 The Components of the Knowledge-Based Enterprise 73
3 Four Domains of the Knowledge-Based Enterprise 75
4 Modelling Views of the Enterprise Knowledge and Data 77
5 The Enterprise Knowledge Space 78
6 The Major Classes of Enterprise Knowledge Base 79
7 Conclusions 81
References 81
Co-designing Models for Enterprises and Integration Information Systems – A Case for Language 84
1 Introduction 84
2 Language Analysis and Comparison 86
3 Deriving the Integration Framework 88
4 Co-designing Models: A Case Study 89
5 Conclusion 92
References 92
The Integration of Functional Decomposition with UML Notation in Business Process Modelling 95
1 Introduction 96
2 Background 96
3 Applying UML in business process modelling 100
4 A case study 102
5 Conclusion 107
References 108
The Framework for Adaptable Data Analysis System Design 110
1 Introduction 110
2 Related works 111
3 Enterprise information flow model 113
4 The framework 114
5 Experimental evaluation of the framework 116
6 Conclusions and future work 116
References 117
A Comparative Review of Approaches for Database Schema Integration 119
1 Introduction 119
2 Database Schema Design on the Basis of Data Flows 120
3 Approaches for Database Schema Integration 121
4 Process of Database Schema Integration 122
5 Schema Integration Process: Manual or Automatic? 127
6 Expected Features for a Future Approach 128
7 Conclusions 129
References 129
Strategic Use of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in Sports: The Rosenborg Case 131
1 Introduction 131
2 Literature review 2.1 Football economics 132
3 Methodology and data collection 135
4 Findings 4.1 The clubs’ responses to the questionnaire 136
5 Discussion 138
6 Conclusion 139
References 140
Towards Knowledge Management Oriented Information System: Supporting Research Activities at the Technical University 142
1 Introduction 142
2 The context of research activities 143
3 Related work 144
4 The process perspective of research activities 146
5 IS development guidelines for support of research activities at the technical university 150
6 Conclusions 151
Acknowledgment 151
References 151
An Architecture for Highly Available and Dynamically Upgradeable Web Services 153
1 Introduction 153
2 Web services 154
3 Related work 156
4 An architecture for high availability and dynamic upgradeability 158
5 Conclusions and future work 164
6 Acknowledgements 165
References 165
Distributed Service Development in Personal Area Networks 167
1 Introduction 167
2 Related work 168
3 MAIPAN – Middleware for Application Interconnection in Personal Area Networks 169
4 Application programming interface 172
5 Internal operation and detailed architecture 177
6 Conclusion 182
References 183
Using a SOA Paradigm to Integrate with ERP Systems 185
1 Introduction 185
2 Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) 186
3 Proposal 189
4 Implementation 190
5 Case Study 191
6 Evaluation 193
6.1 Proposal Advantages: 193
7. Conclusion 194
8 Future Work 195
References 195
SOA-MDK: Towards a Method Development Kit for Service Oriented System Development 197
1 Background 197
2 Case study 198
3 An approach to service oriented specification and implementation 199
4 Method overview 202
5 Case study example 203
6 Conclusion 206
7 Acknowledgements 206
References 206
An Analysis of the Internal Structure and its Development of Virtual Organizations in the Grid 208
1 Introduction 208
2 Semantic model for VO and components 209
3 Workflow design approaches and VO formation 214
4 An example for workflow formation 216
5 Conclusion 218
References 219
Mobile Systems Development: Exploring the Fit of XP 220
1 Introduction 220
2 Research Approach 221
3 Analysis 222
4 Discussion 225
5 Conclusion 228
References 228
A Super Computer Approach Implementation of Server on Grid System: 230
1 Introduction 230
2 System Architecture 231
3 Implementation and Design 234
4 Results and Performance 239
5 Conclusion 241
References 241
Customizing Groupware for Different Collaborative Needs 242
1 Introduction 242
2 Identifying the Issues 243
3 Defining the Technical Strategies 244
4 Choosing the Strategy 245
5 Measures 247
6 Groupware support 249
7 Summary 250
References 250
Proposal for a System Based on the Universal Design Approach for Providing Tourism Information by Linking RFID and GIS 252
1 Introduction 252
2 Analysis of the need for UD in providing information 253
3 System design 255
4 Prototype development 259
5 Conclusion 262
References 262
Industrial Automated Fingerprint-Based Identification System 264
1 Introduction 264
2 Biometric Identification 265
3 Fingerprint Identification Based Employee Management System 267
4 Conclusions 270
References 270
Database Architectures: Current Trends and their Relationships to Requirements of Practice 272
1 Introduction 272
2 Multi-layered DBMS architecture 274
3 Sensor data and sensor networks 275
4 Data streams processing 276
5 Approaching uncertain and imprecise data 276
6 Data mining and OLAP 277
7 Wireless broadcasting and mobile computing 278
8 Towards new database architectures 278
9 From databases to dataspaces 279
10 Conclusions 281
11 Acknowledgement 281
References 281
The IT Culture as an Obstacle to the Adoption of an ERP: Case of a High- Tech SME 283
1 Introduction 283
2 Literature analysis 284
3 Case-study 287
4 Research methodology 288
5 Results and discussion 289
6 Conclusion 290
References 291
Appendix: Key factor grid 293
An Analysis of Communication Technologies for Distributed Embedded Systems in Industrial Process Automation 294
1 Introduction 294
2 The characteristic features of communication technology analysis 295
3 Wireless LAN technology 295
4 GSM and GPRS technologies 297
5 Comparative analysis 302
6 Conclusions 303
References 304
How to Identify Objectives and Genres in Case Study E- Democracy Projects: Learning from an Action 305
1 Introduction 305
2 Theoretical background 306
3 Exploring the suggested process in an action case study 311
5 Discussion 319
6 Conclusion 320
References 321
Replacing a Human Agent by an Automatic Reverse Directory Service 323
1 Introduction 323
2 Structure of names and addresses 324
3 Database categories 325
4 Statistical name and address information 325
5 Recommendation for the spelling of Hungarian 327
6 Prosodic analysis and design 327
7 The acoustic database 327
8 Dialog strategies 328
9 Evaluation 329
10 Summary 329
Acknowledgements 330
References 330
Topic Identification by the Combination of Fuzzy Thesaurus and Complexity Pursuit 331
1 Introduction 331
2 Keyword occurrence frequencies and possibility degrees 332
3 Fuzzy Pre-processing of a Folkloristic Corpus 334
4 Establishing Fuzzy Pseudo-thesauruses by Co-occurrence 335
5 Establishing Pseudo-thesauruses by ICA 340
6 Conclusions and further study 341
References 342
Organizations Long- term Preservation of Electronic Information – A study of Seven Swedish Governmental 343
1 Introduction 344
2 The Study 345
3 Conclusion 349
References 349
The Managing and Complex Querying of the Digital Medical Images Collections 351
1 Introduction 351
2 The Software Tool Architecture 352
3 DICOM File Processing Server 353
4 Image Processing Server 355
5 The Database Server 357
6 The Client 359
7 Conclusion 360
References 361
Semantic Execution of BPEL Processes 363
1 Introduction 363
2 Literature review 364
3 Adding semantics to services descriptions 364
4 Invoking semantic services 365
5 Using Existing BPEL editor 366
6 Short Example 367
7 Summary 367
References 368
MEO Ontology Infrastructure 370
1 Introduction 370
2 Layered approach 371
3 Concept model 373
4 Concepts and features 376
5 MEO and OWL 377
6 Conclusions 377
References 378
A Semantic-Based Web Service Composition Framework 379
1 Introduction 379
2 Architecture of the framework 380
3. Semantic annotation of web service descriptions 382
4 A logic-based web-service composition component 384
5 Related Works 388
6 Conclusions 389
7 Acknowledgements 390
References 390
Community-Based Partnerships in the Design of Information Systems: The Case of the Knowledge Commons 392
1 Introduction 392
2 User-Centred Design: A Complex of Disciplines 393
3 Community-Based Design: A Case-Based Program of Research 401
4 Conclusion and Future Work 403
5 Acknowledgements 404
References 404
ICT Solution and Network Capabilities in the KMP Experience Development: The Role of the Codification Process 407
1 Introduction 407
2 Knowledge-creation mechanisms within networks 408
3 The KMP Project : the building of a KM solution shared by a community of firms and institutions 411
4 Results and Discussion 412
5 Conclusion 418
References 418
Ontology as an Information Base for a Family of Domain Oriented Portal Solutions 420
1 Introduction 420
2 Proposed approach 421
3 Object--ontology mapping 422
4 Pattern types 422
5 Form Generation: Mapping patterns to form controls 427
6 Conclusions 429
References 429
Acknowledgement 429
Business Rules in Clinical Trials 431
1 Introduction 431
2 Clinical trials 432
3 Improvement of clinical trial design 433
4 The model of a clinical trial 434
5 Retrieval of clinical trial rules 435
6 Conclusions 440
References 440
On Some Inferences Based on Stratified Forward Chaining: An Application to E-Government 442
1 Introduction 442
2 Knowledge representation, Cautious union and specific stratified forward chaining 443
3 Stratified Backward Chaining 444
4 Stratified Mixed Chaining 446
5 Deontic Rules 448
6 Conclusion 452
References 453
Requirements Determination for Knowledge Management Systems in Information Technology Outsourcing Relationships 454
1 Introduction 455
2 Prior Research 455
3 Requirements Determination for Inter-organizational KM Systems 460
4 Next Steps 462
References 462
Using Concept Maps in Adaptive Knowledge Assessment 464
1 Introduction 464
2 Computer-assisted assessments 465
3 Concept mapping for knowledge assessment 466
4 The intelligent knowledge assessment system 467
5 Computer adaptive assessment 471
6 Concept map based adaptive knowledge assessment 471
7 Conclusions and future work 472
8 Acknowledgment 473
References 473
Term Clustering and Confidence Measurement in Document Clustering 475
1 Introduction 475
2 New term cluster creation method 476
4 Experiments 482
5 Conclusions 485
6 Acknowledgments 485
References 485
Automation of the Ontology Axioms Transformation into Information Processing Rules Model 486
1 Introduction 486
2 Related Work 486
3 On Ontology Axioms Transformation into Business Rules 487
4 A Case Study of Ontology Axioms Transformation into Rules Model 489
5 Conclusions and Future Work 492
References 492
Using Common Process Patterns for Semantic Web Service Composition 494
1 Introduction 494
2 Generic Approach 495
3 Common Process Pattern 496
4 Implementation of the Common Process Pattern 503
5 Related Work 504
6 Conclusion and Future Works 505
References 505
Categories Extraction for Reuse in Semantic Applications and Profile Based Recommendation Service* 507
1 Semantic web – the new level of service 507
2 Case study of local user 508
3 Strategies for implementation 509
4 Conclusions 513
References 514
Knowledge and Decision-Making within Software Projects 516
1 Introduction 516
2 Knowledge 517
3 Decision Making 518
4 Projects 519
5 The Dynamic Feedback Model 521
6 Conclusions 527
References 528